I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.
Larry CrabbWhen hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.
Larry CrabbThe real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.
Larry CrabbIt is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate
Larry CrabbA vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.
Larry CrabbWhen spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. Thereโs nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.
Larry Crabb